Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

from my motionless

«Not once...

not even once...

My body rocked with the movement

pulled back the

endlessly toward the horizon, sheep grazing in the

sank behind the ever-present black clouds that never seemed

had to fight to

"Dont be nervous.

Freyas voice pulled me from

wise, dark eyes

hadnt eaten since we

I couldnt.

of bread refused to go down my

didnt even begin to describe what I

been our nursemaid, the only person in that house who had ever genuinely cared for me, and now! wanted her to come with

hands together, a thousand thoughts racing through

the carriage halted before

---- would be condemned.

didnt know where

mother had been the

We never knew her.

spoke

she was already on her way

have the heart to kill her, so he

her place, her daughter, and became the betrothed of the Duke living

a rushed, discreet

but no one dared to say it

didnt respect

never gave me

of the Duchy whispered behind my back» ook I staggered toward the bed, but my legs

carpet and my own feet, I collapsed onto the

So much pain...

inside my body was consuming me, tearing me

beat slower

a bitter smile, staring at the white ceiling, my trembling hand pressing against my chest, my vision growing

my final moments, I thought

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